-Other nationals follow suit, and Britain takes its navy to the seas arresting slave traders and freeing slavesRussia-Russia remained, even in 1800s, a nation with serfdom, and absolute monarch, and no legal rights for its people

-In 1825, a group of army officers (radicalized by Enlightenment ideas during Napoleonic Wars) attempted and failed to stage a revolt. This was the "Decembrist" revolt.

-While the revolt failed, Russia will ban serfdom in 1861, largely influenced by "enlightened" nobilityConsequences-Outside Haiti, slaves were not given land and often forced into sharecropping

-No "abolitionist" movement in Islamic world. Slaves stay. Nationalism-Prior to 1800s, few people thought of themselves as belonging to a "nation"- lands and titles changed hands frequently between different kings

-The "Revolutions", however, preached nationhood, an enlightenment idea, uniting people of the same ethnic group